Re: [Clonezilla-live] Recovery suddenly stops, after 20+h normal working

[Steven S. <st...@na...>]

OK, great. At least you have found a workaround to make it work.
Thanks for sharing that.

Steven

On 11/8/20 9:04 PM, Michael via Clonezilla-live wrote:
> Steven,
>
> thank you very much for answering! I've on Friday decided to start a 2nd try, maybe just a one time error. And to be sure that the disk will not go to sleep, I've written a small and simple perl script which ran in parallel, writes a file and sleep for a minute, in a loop. 
> Clonezilla has now successfully finished my recovery :)
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> Am 8. November 2020 05:53:46 MEZ schrieb Steven Shiau <st...@na...>:
>> So the issue is due to the USB disk went to sleep mode?
>> If so, any idea how to force your VM to stop doing that?
>> Not sure if newer Linux kernel helps, but you can give Clonezilla live
>>> = 2.7.0-10 or 20201102-groovy a try. They have newer Linux kernels.
>> Steven
>>
>> On 11/6/20 12:59 AM, michaelof--- via Clonezilla-live wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> clonezilla-live-2.6.7-28-amd64.iso
>>>
>>> OpenSuse 15.2, 4TB USB 3.0 HDD, ext4, user mounted, with a Clonezilla
>>> image on it, 1TB Win10.
>>>
>>> My target is to restore this Win10 image (NTFS-formatted, encrypted
>>> disk) into a VM.
>>>
>>> Tried as follows:
>>>
>>> - Created a new VM on the USB 3.0 hdd
>>> - Should "boot from DVD" => clonezilla-live-2.6.7-28-amd64.iso
>>> - added new, "empty" 1 TB virtual HDD. Type one file, to be expanded
>>> as needed.
>>> - booted from Clonezilla live, Clonezilla boot option "to ram, media
>>> can be removed later".
>>> - /home/partimag set to SSH server, connecting from VM to Host.
>>>
>>> Result: Recovery ran fine for more than ~20 hrs,
>> Clonzilla/"Partclone"
>>> progress bar shows 75% done, 25% left.
>>>
>>> Today, suddenly, Clonezilla stopped writing. usb hdd went into sleep
>>> mode, after that.
>>> Clonezilla although still counting elapsed/remaining time and
>> transfer
>>> rate..
>>> Even counting after I've now suspended and resumed the VM, to test.
>>>
>>> Any hints what to do?
>>>
>>> FYI on this usb 3.0 hdd is also a clonezilla installed, older
>> version,
>>> separate bootable partition. I'm using this for years now, to boot
>>> from and take images of my OpenSuse Leap system, from time to time.
>>> Imaging and restoring (tested, of course :-)) works fine. Win10 image
>>> was also taken with this older Clonezilla, restored to same hardware
>>> for test, also fine.
>>> Only restore to vm fails, any hints why?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
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